Vee Speers

Taylor Long, Photography

Slide 1: Front PageSlide 2: About Vee SpeersSlide 3: Immortal Portfolio: PhotosSlide 4: Immortal Portfolio: AboutSlide 5: The Birthday Party: PhotosSlide 6: The Birthday Party: About

AboutVee Speers is an Australian photographer who is currently living in Paris. She studied fine art and photography in Brisbane and then done a five year career in Sydney with the ABC television as a stills photographer.Vee Speers’ photography work has been exhibited in London, Paris, Miami, New York, Boston, Houston, Sydney, Atlanta, Stockholm, China, Ireland, Singapore, Japan, Germany, Austria, Italy, Tunisia, Brazil and Mexico.Her work has graced the covers of Zoom, Public Art, Photo International, Images Magazine, A Conceptual Magazine, The British journal of photography, The Sunday Times UK, Russian Photo and Video and Swedish Photo with features in Eyemazing, Exit, Art Investor, Germany, Shots UK, Photo District News NYC, Photographia Tokyo, American Black + White, Milk, Fotomagazin, Chinese Photography, Bloom, BG Magazine Ecuador, Arte Al Limite, etc.

Immortal

Portfolio

Immortal Portfolio“We all think about our mortality but cannot imagine growing old. Our society is obsessed with freezing time and avoiding the inevitable death and decay as long as possible.Vee Speers’ latest body of photo-based art, aptly titled Immortal, plays to these age-old sensibilities and timeless longings while riffing on the very contemporary convergence of similar ideas, ideals, and forms that have invaded our consciousness in our media-driven, technology-rich consumer cultures.At once alluring and disquieting, these portraits of naked beautiful youths are set against backdrops of Eden-like natural beauty, or scenes of post-apocalyptic destruction. These Immortals are real people, young and beautiful, but they seem isolated, exposed and vulnerable, trapped, distant, on guard, defiant, all alone in a strange land, and confronted by echoes of subliminal fears and insecurities.With the smooth gloss sheen of fashion-model perfection and an air of computer-generated artificially, Speers has created a new world that merges Mona Lisa charm and mystery, with the melancholy of Dorian Gray, and the 3D cartoon poignancy of the movie Avatar.The surface is loaded with reference both to classical art, and to the airbrushed Photoshop perfection of youthful beauty that has become the everyday obsession of western culture. These Immortals are all like tragic fallen angels, eyes opened with animal intelligence, looking out onto an uncertain future, not even aware of how perfectly beautiful they appear to be right now.”- Jim Casper

The Birthday

Party Portfolio

The Birthday Party Portfolio

“The birthday party portfolio shows Vee Speers creative side. Their faces look directly at the camera like there looking at the viewer creating a dramatic effect.These portraits of children confront us with reminders of our own childhood. Like wearing a homemade costume can transform you into a super hero, princess, pirate, cowboy etc and you would have hours of fun in your imaginary world. The escapes that these worlds of play can provide disclose the underlying realities of the modern world, with conflict and violence.Looking at these photos some of the children look sad which triggers our own concerns in relation to today's society. Child psychologist use observation of play to decipher underlying traumas and issues a child may be experiencing.The Birthday Party presents us with a façade of fantasy but with a pared down aesthetic that amplifies the visual intensity through its simplicity.”

- Laura Noble